osOpinion: Linux: You'll Never Get Rid of It!

WEBINAR:On-Demand

"Is it really important which OS had a feature first, as long as
it's there NOW? For example, both Linux and Windows 2000 support
SMP for boxes with more than one processor. I don't care that Linux
had it first, but it did. The fact is, Windows has it now as
well."

"I got to wondering, now that Win2k seems to have tackled
Windows' previous instability issues, what's next? What makes Linux
so much better than any version of Windows could ever be? The
answer hit me almost immediately: Microsoft can do everything Linux
does, with 3 major exceptions: They haven't done any better, their
software requires big expensive computers, and their software costs
$300 per license for most business computers."

"Taking these one issue at a time, we have the fact that
Microsoft hasn't done any better. They haven't. Microsoft has only
implemented Linux policies that it lacks. They introduced SMP, as I
mentioned above, but it's not significantly better than you can
find in the Linux 2.4 kernel, if it's better at all. What I've just
seen is an effort to copy, not improve. That hardly seems like an
innovative move, to me. Win2k introduces stability to the Windows
line, as well. Yes, well, Linux had that. It's been copied, but not
improved. So we have a large corporation -- one of the largest in
the world -- striving to mimic a gathering of hobbyists, and
nothing more."